The Crooked Sixpence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIBDBD| TAKE then back your foolish token | A |
| Since it cannot change like you | B |
| When I feel my heart is broken | A |
| Shall it still proclaim you true | B |
| When you gave it you besought me | C |
| Never from that pledge to part | D |
| If I am what then you thought me | C |
| You have spurned an honest heart | D |
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| When far hence the boisterous billows | E |
| Rage upon the stormy deep | F |
| And your landsmen press their pillows | E |
| Careless how we sailors sleep | F |
| Think how happy you had made him | G |
| Think how grieved he was to part | D |
| Who though harshly you upbraid him | G |
| Loved ye with an honest heart | D |
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| Farewell Nancy but if ever | H |
| Eyes you love grow gloomy then | I |
| Oh remember though we sever | H |
| You have still a friend in Ben | I |
| Yes dear girl he'll still defend you | B |
| And some comfort 'twill impart | D |
| Aid of any sort to lend you | B |
| Though you broke an honest heart | D |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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